Sawubona!

That's hello in Zulu. Sorry I haven't updated recently. My Zulu class has been consuming my life lately. The first week was really challenging, because the language is so foreign and different to all of us. It's getting better though. We're getting into writing sentences and conjugating verbs which follows a specific formula so it's easier to catch on to.

Besides Zulu my days are pretty relaxed here. After breakfast (almost) every morning I usually walk the 5km trail right next door to African Enterprise center. It's on a mini game reserve/park that's open to the public. It's a beautiful walk and if your lucky you can spot zebras! I had the good fortune of seeing the lovely animals twice this week. they are such interesting creatures when you see them up close. you can actually get quite close to them. I was probably within 10-15 feet of one today. It's been getting pretty hot here the last week or so. There's no pool here, but there are several rivers and a water hole. The rivers are really fun to climb in. We've created a new sport called rock sliding. which is basically where you slide down the drops in the river. I'll post a picture of it soon to give you an idea.

The zulu kids basically spend the whole week on campus, because we have class in the evenings when the mall and movie runs usually happen. However, on the weekends we get out. Our first weekend here we went to a lion park where not only did we get some amazing close ups of a few lions, but we saw a few elephants as well. It was pretty awesome. We also went to a bird park/reserve where we got to see some pretty awesome birds.

This last weekend we went to Sea World! It was both a marine park and water slide park. In the morning we saw a dolphins and seal show. We spent the afternoon swimming and going down waterslides. I felt like a kid again.

More soon!
Lots of love,
Julia